Floods, Fires, and Fervor: The Politics of Climate Emergencies

In recent years it has become increasingly common to attribute disasters such as floods and fires to a broader climate emergency. What are the political effects of these causal narratives and practices of attribution with respect to the governance of climate change? This PhD project uses interpretivist process-tracing to offer an empirically grounded account of climate emergency claims and aims to theorize the conditions under which the different outcomes are produced.,